TD Africa, in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Operated by Selectium, hosted a high-level partner engagement event on May 14, 2026, focused on emerging trends shaping the future of enterprise networking and infrastructure transformation. The engagement brought together key partners to explore how organisations can build smarter, faster, and more secure network infrastructures capable…
Telecommunications regulators from around the world have endorsed a comprehensive set of guidelines to navigate digital challenges and opportunities at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2026 (GSR-26). The new guidelines, 2026 Best Practice Guidelines: Regulatory Governance Essentials, are a digital regulation toolkit to address emerging technologies, infrastructure resilience, youth safety, disaster management and the persistent…
Facebook has launched the sixth edition of its pan-African campaign, ‘Made by Africa, loved by the world: Where stories spark community,’ ahead of Africa Day on May 25. This year’s focus: African cinema. The 2026 campaign features a five-part vodcast series profiling five internationally acclaimed actors and filmmakers from Nigeria and South Africa, hosted by…
The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has signed separate Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) to strengthen data protection and privacy across Nigeria’s public sector and subnational institutions. Speaking during the signing of the MoU with the Bureau of Public Procurement, the National Commissioner/CEO…
Smarting from its successful collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and launch of the launch of Telecommunications Identity Risk Management System (TIRMS) to track, verify, and mitigate risks associated with subscriber identity module (SIM) card fraud, number recycling, and other identity-related abuses, the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, NCC, Dr Aminu Maida, said the Commission…
Francophone Africa and Nigeria’s constant currency growth has lifted Airtel Africa’s profit after tax to $813million, an improvement from $328million in the prior period. Higher profit after tax in the current period was driven by higher operating profit and derivative and foreign exchange gains of $127million compared to $179million derivative and foreign exchange losses in…
Refiant AI, an AI/ML company that compresses frontier models to run at up to 100x lower compute and energy cost, has partnered the Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering, a joint research centre between Imperial College London and University College London.The move represents a major step for Refiant AI, which announced its first funding round…
MTN Nigeria has restated its commitment to deepening investment in the country’s youth ecosystem, backing a youth-led creative and innovation platform, with over N45 million in funding for innovative ideas. The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, Karl Toriola, who spoke Sunday night at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos venue of “The Gathering on 100”,…
Arista Networks, Inc and partners have promised at least, 30 per cent savings in power savings to data centre operators in the country. This emerged when the cloud networking tech giant, in partnership with MART Networks and Resourcery Plc, hosted a forum tagged: “Efficiency Meets Performance – The Arista Advantage” at the Radisson Blu Anchorage…
